The investigation finally brought charges against Moscow activist Mikhail Krieger, who was charged with criminal charges due to several posts and comments about Russian security forces. This was announced by his lawyer Mikhail Biryukov.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court upheld the decision of the court of first instance, which extended the arrest of Yekaterinburg resident Michal Nikitin in the case of preparing to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office. This was reported by Vecherniye Vedomosti. The man will remain in pre-trial detention until at least March 25.

A court in Moscow, at the request of bailiffs, banned civil activist Polina Oleinikova from traveling outside Russia for six months. Oleynikova herself, who has already left the country, told OVD-Info about this. The court made this decision at the end of December on the basis of enforcement proceedings. In January 2022, Oleynikova was sentenced to 30 hours of compulsory work under the article on participation in an uncoordinated public action (Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code).

The Kyzyl City Court of the Republic of Tyva imposed a suspended six-year sentence on local Jehovah's Witness Anatoly Senin. This is reported by a website covering the persecution of believers of this denomination. The man was found guilty under the article on organizing the activities of an extremist organization (Part 1 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The prosecutor's office asked to give him a real seven-year sentence.

The Abakan City Court of Khakassia extended for two months the arrest of the editor-in-chief of the New Focus magazine, Mikhail Afanasyev, accused in the case of military “fakes.” Human rights activist Pavel Chikov talks about this. reports Thus, Afanasyev will be in custody for almost a year, since he will be in the pre-trial detention center on April 15, 2022.

The defendants in the case of arson of the administration of the city of Bakala in the Chelyabinsk region, Alexey Nuriev and Roman Nasryev, were transferred from pre-trial detention center-7 to Chelyabinsk pre-trial detention center-1. This is reported by the Solidarity Zone project.

On January 11, the Supreme Court of Russia partially upheld the cassation appeal of four Jehovah's Witnesses against the verdict in the case of an extremist organization handed down in November 2020. This is reported by a portal covering the persecution of believers.

The St. Petersburg City Court overturned the decision of the court of first instance, which dismissed the criminal case against Kirill Korolev, a participant in the anti-war rally on March 6, 2022. The publication “ZAKS.Ru” is about this. reports Thus, the city court satisfied the prosecutor's appeal to the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg and sent the case for a new trial. Korolev was accused of using violence against a police officer (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code).

The Koryazhemsky City Court of the Arkhangelsk Region returned to the police an administrative case regarding the involvement of a child in a picket, which was filed against local resident Lyudmila Alexandrova. SOTA drew attention to the court's decision . According to the judge's ruling, the police did not properly notify the victim's granddaughter Alexandrova and her legal representative about the trial. The case was returned to correct the deficiencies.

The Leninsky District Court of Vladikavkaz extended the arrest of blogger and author of the telegram channel “Challenge of Time” Alan Khasiev until January 30. This was reported by the Krylya TV telegram channel with reference to the joint press service of the courts of North Ossetia. Khasiev is charged with public dissemination of slander (Part 2 of Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code).

On September 23, 2022, the Dmitrov City Court of the Moscow Region convicted local resident Evgeniy Yaremenko in the case of desecration of the Russian flag. Information about this is on the court's website. published The man was found guilty under articles of desecration of the state flag of the Russian Federation (Article 329 of the Criminal Code) and theft causing significant damage to a citizen (clause “c” of Part 2 of Article 158 of the Criminal Code).

In Voronezh, security forces came to search SOTAvision correspondent Fyodor Orlov, and after that they interrogated his mother. SOTAvision talks about this with reference to the lawyer of the journalist Georgy Lutskevich. reports In the morning, when the police came, only Orlova’s mother was at home. After the investigation, she was taken to the police station in the Central District of Voronezh and interrogated. The security forces seized all the equipment from the Orlovs’ house.

On January 12, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) published a series of decisions in which it considered complaints from those detained at peaceful protests in Russia. This was reported on the official website of the court. Among the applications examined were 36 complaints filed by OVD-Info lawyers with information support from the Memorial Human Rights Center.

Raif Fevziev / Photo: “Crimean Solidarity”. The Southern District Military Court sentenced to 17 years in a maximum regime of Crimean Imam Raif Fevziev on charges of involvement in Hizb Ut-Tahrir. It is reported by Crimean Solidarity. It was such a period that the prosecutor requested during the debate on December 27. Fevziev will spend the first three years in prison .

On December 8, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put on the wanted list Nikita Kamensky, a person involved in a criminal case about anti-war inscriptions (Part 1 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code), who is not currently in Russia. His wife Margarita Kamenskaya reported this to OVD-Info.